On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
I have submitted a patch for review here: http://bugs.python.org/issue2663
glob-style patterns or a callable (for complex cases) can be provided to filter out files or directories.
I'm not a big fan of the sequence-or-callable argument. Why not just make it a callable argument, and supply a utility function so that you can write something like::
exclude_func = shutil.excluding_patterns('*.tmp', 'test_dir2') shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, exclude=exclude_func)
?
I made another draft based on a single callable argument to try out: http://bugs.python.org/file10073/shutil.copytree.filtering.patch The callable takes the src directory + its content as a list, and returns filter eligible for exclusion That makes me wonder, like Alexander said on the bug tracker: In the glob-style patterns callable, do we want to deal with absolute paths ? Tarek